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L. H. GANO, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 75,008, dated March 3, 1868;

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-TIES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that L L. H. GANO, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved Bag-Tie; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. I

This invention consists in a combination of a lever, provided at its foot with a tooth, with links of a number snfiicient to encircle the mouth of a bag, one of which links is provided with a spring, which looks the aforesaid lever in position to close the bag, while the tooth before mentioned catches in the end of another link, and thus completes the tying operation. I

To enable others to make and use my invention, Iwill now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

a represents a metallic lever, of wing-shape, as shown. 6 represents a curved metallic link, the end of which passes through a hole in the end oi'the lever. c is a. curved tooth, near the foot of the lever. b 1) represent curved metallic links, forming, with the link I), a chain, long enough to completely encircle the mouth of the bag. The links are made of elastic material. At the opposite extremity ofthe link (a, from the lover a, the ends of the wire forming the link are bent backward and inward, as shown, so as to form loops for the insertion of the end of the next link. The ends of the wire of the link 6 also project inward past the loops, so as to form spurs d d within the link.

The operation of this device is as follows: The mouth of the bag having been gathered up, the chain is passed around it in such manner that the concave sides of the links are next the bag. v The lever a is then passed between the bag and the free end of the link 1;, at the other extremity of the chain, until the tooth c catches against-said end. ,The lever a is then brought forward around the end of the link 6 as a fulcrum, the tooth c-preventing the separation of the lever and link, and toward the end of the link 6, on which are the spurs dd. This movement of the lever draws the link Z1 down against the bag, and also draws the link!) into 6 to an extent, the end of the link I) being made small enough for that purpose, and being bent upward, as shown, so as to allow the short arm a to pass up through the link 6 far enough to enable thelonger arm to be thrust down between the spurs d d, and thus locked in position. he drawing of the. end of the link 6 past that of the link 6" tightens the chain abont the bag. The wire of which the link 6 is formed being elastic, insures theclosing of the spursd at over the lever as soon as it has passed down between them. It is obvious that instead of an elastic link and spurs, springs might be made to take the place of the spurs 01.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lever a, provided with its tooth c, in combination with the elastic vlink b, the spurs (Z (Z, and the links b 6, arranged and operating substantially as described. i

H. GANO.

Witnesses J. B. Tnoims, D. Dmmnr. 

